I Think That Things Are

Being Human Is Itself Difficult, And Therefore All Kinds Of Settlements (except Dream Cities) Have Problems. Big Cities Have Difficulties In Abundance, Because They Have People In Abundance.

I Basically Don't Think That The Way We Do Things Is That Dependent On One Resource, Such As Oil. There Can Be Different Kinds Of Engines For Cars. I Think That Solar Heating, Wind Heating Can Substitute For A Lot Of Uses For Oil. I'd Like To See Those Things Happen Because They Are More Sustainable In Any Case. But I Do Not Think That Running Out Of Oil Is Not Going To Bother Us That Much. I Think We Have Got To Be Rescued By Something Or We Really Are Going Down A Slippery Slope.

The Salient Mystery Of Dark Ages Sets The Stage For Mass Amnesia. People Living In Vigorous Cultures Typically Treasure Those Cultures And Resist Any Threat To Them. How And Why Can A People So Totally Discard A Formerly Vital Culture That It Becomes Vitally Lost?

The Primary Conflict, I Think, Is Between People Whose Interests Are With Already Well-established Economic Activities, And Those Whose Interests Are With The Emergence Of New Economic Activities.

The Notion - And I Tell You This One Even Worries Me That It Extends Into New Urbanism - The Notion Of The Shopping Center [as] A Valid Kind Of Downtown. That's Taken Over. It's Very Hard For Architects Of This Generation Even To Think In Terms Of A Downtown Or A Center That Is Owned By All Different People, With Different Ideas.